Saturday, September 18, 2010

BUT THERE’S ALWAYS CASH FOR MORE JAILS

Tired isn’t the word for his dreary perpetuation…

“Due to the prolonged economic meltdown, many states are now making drastic cuts in funding for social services - such as health, education, and public housing - but not on policing and prison improvement and expansion. There are nearly two million people behind bars in the U.S., most poor whites and people of colour, making the United States the number one country in the world in terms of the imprisonment rate. The report notes that about 16 percent of incarcerated people also experienced homelessness before being arrested. "Most of these people are significantly more likely to have both a mental illness and a substance addiction, which frequently go untreated," said Nastassia Walsh of JPI. She said that states with higher high school graduation rates and college enrollment have lower crime rates than those with lower educational attainment levels.”Click here for more